Mac cursor folder

Question

I have been studying for a couple of hours and I want to find my default Mac pointer for the system. I do not want to use the default cursor. I am running one of the older versions of Mac, which is: 10.4.11;

I was told that the cursors are here:

/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/HiServices.framework/Versions/A/Resources/cursors 

But there seems to be no cursors folder in

 /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/HiServices.framework/Versions/A/Resources/ 

Please, help. I want to get smitten .: P

Answer 1

The default arrow should be displayed at times when the rest of the system may not be available (for example, at boot), so it is likely to be stored in a special place, for example, in the equipment itself.

The closest image to the default cursor is probably the "context menu", here:

 /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/HIServices.framework/Versions/A/Resources/cursors/contextualmenu/cursor_1only_.png 

With some minor changes, you can probably turn this image into a whole arrow picture.

Most other cursors have images in WebKit, here:

 /System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/Current/Frameworks/WebCore.framework/Resources/ 

Answer 2

After a little digging, I found the following:

 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/EFILogin.framework/Versions/A/Resources/EFIResourceBuilder.bundle/Contents/Resources/ [e-mail] 

Hope this is what you were looking for.

Answer 3

You can extract the image programmatically:

 //: Playground - noun: a place where people can play import Cocoa let cursor = NSCursor.arrowCursor().image.TIFFRepresentation let searchPaths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(.DocumentDirectory, NSSearchPathDomainMask.UserDomainMask, true) let documentsPath = searchPaths[0] as! String let savePath = documentsPath.stringByAppendingPathComponent("cursor.tiff") cursor?.writeToFile(savePath, atomically: true) 

The result is a tiff with 4 different versions of the cursor, ranging in size from 20x24 pixels (by default not to the retina) to 200x240 pixels. Using Preview.app, you can capture each individual size and copy / paste into a new document, saving each as png.

Or just take the one I prepared earlier: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/147461/mac-cursor/mac-cursor.zip